As odd as it is to have two major national holidays so close together, today is IHOP National Pancake Day, just two days after Super Bowl Sunday. I'm a big fan of pancakes: cooking breakfast was the gateway to whatever other cooking I do to this day, so I will have to celebrate the occasion by turning out a stack or two, though a free serving of pancakes is tempting (especially since it supports charity), but with the nearest IHOP a half-hour away, it will be a lot quicker to make them.

Lol that's right. I suppose because I don't text I don't know all the shortcuts to illiteracy. Seriously though, the lack of even utilizing rudimentary grammar - capitalization and basic punctuation - really gets on my tits. How fucking difficult is it to hit a shift key, or comma, or period now and then? And then you think about all those tax dollars wasted on the little bastards. Makes me want to beat them to death with a copy of Strunk and White's Elements of Style.

"We choose the right to be who we are. We know the difference between the reality of freedom and the illusion of freedom."